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Val Wotton

Val Wotton

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Val Wotton is Managing Director of Product Development and Strategy, Derivatives and Collateral Management at DTCC where he is responsible for overseeing the firm’s Global Trade Repository (GTR), Trade Information Warehouse (TIW) and GlobalCollateral services. Within this role, Wotton leads efforts to identify opportunities to enhance the services to meet the evolving operational and regulatory compliance needs of DTCC’s global client base as well as helps the firm to innovate around the core principles of automation, standardization and utilization.

Prior to joining DTCC, Val served as Global Head of Markets Post Trade Services and Europe Markets Operations at Barclays, with oversight for derivatives, securities, futures and clearing. There, he was responsible for the implementation of a strategic global operational model to provide improved service capabilities to clients and internal businesses as well as the design and delivery of an enhanced strategic architecture to achieve automation, process improvement and risk management objectives. Previously, Val held several senior roles at Citigroup.

During his career, Wotton has served on a number of Boards and committees, including DTCC’s Deriv/SERV Board, LCH OTC Deriv Net, and the International Swaps & Derivatives Organization’s (ISDA) Market Infrastructure & Technology Committee. Val holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Nottingham Trent University.